Architectural difference between VMware vs Hyper V explained

Posted by Kenneth van Surksum on on April 11 2009, 7:42 PM with 5 comment(s)
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There's a fundamental structural difference between VMware and Hyper-V. Tim Antonowicz, Senior SE and virtualization guru at Mosaic explains the difference.

 

 

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asudbring wrote re: Architectural difference between VMware vs Hyper V explained
on 04-11-2009 11:01 PM

This guy is totally Wrong.  Hyper-V and XEN are NOT APPLICATIONS RUNNING IN THE OS!!!!  Vmware is a fat hypervisor that contains a parent partition just like Hyper-V and XEN except Vmware includes the drivers with the Hypervisor.  Hyper-V and XEN have drivers in the Parent Partition and the hypervisor is called a thin hypervisor.  What this guy is referring to would be more like how Virtual Server 2005 or Vmware Server works.

Ivor wrote re: Architectural difference between VMware vs Hyper V explained
on 04-12-2009 11:22 AM

I agree with asudbring, this guy is completly wrong. Hyper-V IS baremetal virtualization, hypervisor is bellow OS (something like ring -1).

It's sad that this great portal often blogs false thing like this : /

Kenneth van Surksum wrote re: Architectural difference between VMware vs Hyper V explained
on 04-12-2009 2:52 PM

Hi Ivor,

The fact that i blog it doesn't mean i agree with it. To be precise, i also think that this guy makes some wrong assumptions.  My goal for these kind of posts is to start a discussion with the readers of hypervoria.com.

so please tell why you think this article sucks. I'd love to hear everyone's comments.

Thanks for visiting Hypervoria,

Kenneth

Realtime Community | Windows Server wrote How to Incorrectly Explain the Architectural Differences Between Hyper-V and ESX
on 04-13-2009 6:31 AM

ARGH! After watching this video on Sunday morning (waiting for the egg strata to finish in the oven...really...) I found myself pulling out my worn ol' "bang head here" sign. After a few good thwacks, I realized again why so many IT pros are so confused

Realtime Community | Windows Server wrote How To Correctly Explain the Architectural Differences Between Hyper-V and Microsoft Virtual Server
on 04-14-2009 6:35 AM

I still plan to get you a written description of the architectual differences between ESX and Hyper-V. However, first I want to further justify my comments from yesterday. In that post, I express my irritation at the level of misunderstanding about the

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